Whats the most you have splashed out on software?

Feek · 20 Dec 2009 at 13:43

markweatherill said:
Does it count that I fund all the Government's excellent IT projects for the NHS, MoD, HMRC etc?

No

philip2009 · 20 Dec 2009 at 14:13

Think it was probably the Amiga SAS/Lattice C compiler back in the early 90s IIRC it was around £200 back then.

NickK · 20 Dec 2009 at 15:37

Hmm, I think Reason 3 I then lost the receipt that would have allowed it to be upgraded to Reason 4.. rather annoyed! Majority of other software purchases have been around £70 such as iWork, OSes and games on the odd occasion etc.

I remember purchasing Borland Turbo Pascal and Acorn ARM C++ for RISCOS which where about 70 and 100 or so.. back in 1992/3.

Aod · 20 Dec 2009 at 16:36

£150 for VMware workstation7
£70 for Windows 7 Professional when it was on special offer.

dangerstat · 20 Dec 2009 at 16:40

MATLAB with some extra toolboxes, lets just say it was expensive

kylew · 20 Dec 2009 at 16:49

MagicBoy said:
Recently we've got £80 on OS X 10.5 Leopard and a Windows 7 Pro pre-order so around £75.

Annoyingly I got a free copy of 7 Ultimate when I went on training last week, had I known I wouldn't have bothered pre-ordering.

Surely you can cancel your pre-order?

MagicBoy · 20 Dec 2009 at 16:52

kylew said:
Surely you can cancel your pre-order?

Windows 7 launched 2 months ago.

Dan87 · 20 Dec 2009 at 17:14

£700- cs3 master collection.

Cosimo · 20 Dec 2009 at 17:21

gillywibble said:
£1.79

Something tells me that you’re telling porkies.

Firestar_3x · 20 Dec 2009 at 17:23

Personally about £170 or something on Vista, worst buy ever!

When i was in IT, most i spent in one go was around 40k on office xp.

Speedy · 20 Dec 2009 at 21:49

$195 for Jelsoft's vBulletin. All local computer software just happened to spawn on my hard drive

Hades · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:21

Lightwave on the Amiga. I can't recall the price but it was several hundred pounds.

paradigm · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:28

If we include stuff I've purchased for work, then well over £100k in licensing in one go.

At home, would probably be a game of some description, so lets say £50 ish.

SexyGreyFox · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:37

swanseajack said:
Youngsters Back in the day stuff was expensive. My first cd writer was £260, 2 speed

My first cost £5000 and we had to buy 2x 1 gig SCSI hard drives to feed it.
you put the stuff on the first hard drive, made an image to the second hard drive then burned it to a £12 disk.
Five of us had paid into it and we were supposed to have it for a week each.
The 2nd guy to have it was into all things dodgy and the police called to have him for phone phreaking (basically he was downloading stuff from America on BT Engineers codes).
While in the house they found 50 copies of Microsoft Encarta that had just come out and they confiscated his computer equipment

I never got my money back.

setter · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:41

£90.00 for a copy of cyberlink power dvd 9 ultra.

The Mad Rapper · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:46

Biohazard said:
i had the same idea, i used notepad.

You're so 1337

Moredhel · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:54

Adobe Lightroom, £130ish? Can't remember precisely.
Vista next at £75 for Ultimate OEM x64, IIRC.
[edit]
No, OSX 10.4 Tiger for my old Powerbook, £89.99